Jenkins, H, active 18th century

Date: 1768-1946

By: Cook, James, 1728-1779

Reference: MS-Papers-0200

Description: Group A: Miscellaneous papers mainly relating to Mrs Elizabeth's Cook & Cook's descendants, including letters from Mrs Cook to H Jenkins, & genealogical tables, 1790-1946 Group B: Photocopied material on Cook's voyages collected from various repositories by J C Beaglehole Group C: Official letters from Cook mainly to the Admiralty, 1768-1793. All, except Cook's description of the transit of Venus, item 24, which is a printed facsimile copy Group D: Four documents from the Dutch National Archives relating to Cook's visit to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies at the end of his first voyage; photocopies with translations Quantity: 41 folder(s). 0.41 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and photocopies Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: The collection has several different provenances: (a) Miscellaneous papers mainly relating to Mrs Elizabeth Cook and Cook's descendants, including letters from Mrs Cook to H Jenkins, and genealogical tables, 1790-1946; (b) Photocopied material on Cook's voyages collected from various repositories by J C Beaglehole; (c) Official letters from Cook mainly to the Admiralty, 1768-1793, all of which are photocopies, except for Cook's description of the transit of Venus (MS-Papers-0200-24) which is a printed facsimile copy; (d) Four photocopied documents, with translations, from the Dutch National Archives relating to Cook's visit to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies at the end of his first voyage. See inventory for further details.